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We must strike while the vrykul forces are in disarray! Take the harpoon control mechanism to Nifflevar and locate the northernmost harpoon building on the bluff side of the village.

Once there, commandeer one of the vrykul harpoon guns that are stationed on the building's deck. Use the harpoon gun to rain hell upon Wyrmskull Village! Destroy the longhouse, dockhouse, storage facility and any defenders that the vrykul may send at you!

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Comment by jarofclay

Comment by luckyllama

For me, I had a hard time actually shooting the harpoons. I would click and nothing would happen. I disabled addon's I was running and that seemed to fix everything up. Forewarned.

Comment by modem

This quest doesn't appear to be working in build 8820.

Comment by breedingpit

just to make sure: the buildings you have to destroy are those below in the village in front of Udgart Keep's entrace?

Comment by Aaron331

make sure you hit the rooftops of the buildings every spear destroyed each target.

Comment by Werlwind

Make sure to put terrain distance on more than low else you won't see your target :>

Comment by MrGrouch

Just to be clear, the three building you need to hit are the ones on the water. From left to right, the buildings are: Storage Facility, Dockhouse, Longhouse. After each building 3 to 5 defenders on the backs of red dragons appear.

Comment by Tankadinious

I had to turn off all of my addons to be able to shoot with the harpoon. The quest itself was a pie, just had to shoot directly to the rooftops rather than sidewalls or ground near them.

Comment by Sihmadur

Confirmed: Some addons don't mesh well with the new Vehicles. I suspect Bartender4 or Xperl to be the culprit in my case. Quest worked fine when all addons were disabled.

Comment by ekgew

You need to release pet if you have one out, or it will not work.

Also, i shot from the right hand side gun and got all targets, easily.

Comment by alex7718

STEP 1: Disable any UI mods, a lot of them will glitch this quest.

STEP 2: Go to a harpoon at either 64, 54 or 64, 52. Doesn't matter which one you pick.

STEP 3: Use the item in your bag and you should "mount" the harpoon changing your UI with 2 possible attacks.

STEP 4: Use the keyboard to turn the harpoon and you'll see three houses down below right by the water. These are your three building targets.

STEP 5: Use Attack #1 and aim the green cursor at the RED ROOF of the house you want to destroy and fire. If you hit the house anywhere else it may not give you credit.

STEP 6: Everytime you destroy a house Dragonflayer Defenders will spawn. Kill them by targeting them and using Attack #2.

Sometimes a crowd of players may form waiting for you to finish up harpooning because only one person can use it at a time. You can get around this by inviting them to a group, you will all get quest credit.

Comment by Tomth

When you at the gun look down and you will see 3 houses near the river with red rooftop. Shot at 'em to complete the quest

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Comment by shakai9

if it still doesn't work after u disable all ur UI,try to restart WOW...blizzard better fix this...took me like an hour to finish this stupid quest of course this includes reading the above posts and finally realizing that maybe i should restart WOW

Comment by Tolki

There is only one followup after this quest, to my knowledge, with no rewards. Not worth the effort to do this quest if you can't make the gun work for whatever reason, abandon it and move along.

Comment by Anstrom

Just aim at the roofs to the 3 buildings using your #1 attack. There's NO bug and NO Interference with addons. You have to aim and hit the roofs. Then use your #2 on the Dragonflayer Defenders as they will spawn after the alarms are sounded when a buildings are destroyed. The 3 buildings are right in this screenshot I took.

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Comment by Transcendental

The harpoon guns can be healed by a non-user!

Comment by sunfang

I gotta tell u guys a secrect..For those who can not see the houses, it is because they didnt set their view distence to be the highest one.I jumped and came back for so many times, and spent around an hour to figure out this problem

Comment by Xidash

From Lieutenant Icehammer, walk south along the cliff. Climb on the first harpoon you come across in Nifflevar, and raise your video setting "view distance" to high. Look down over the cliff across the water at the village you were questing in earlier, Wyrmskull Village.

Use button 1 to destory the buildings, button 2 to kill the flying defenders that come after you destroy the buildings. To destroy the buildings, aim for the top or roof, or you won't get credit. Aiming at the base of the buildings does you no good. 1 harpoon (button 2) will kill a defender.

Comment by Versailes

If you have poor graphics you will not be able to see the houses that you are supposed to hit.

Comment by dartheuxxa

Is correct guys! The addons actually can cause the quest not to qork properly.

Once you get control of the harpoon, if you do not have addons like: bartender (action bars) you wil see that a console will appear instead of your normal action bar. That is intended for you to use when operating a weapon, vehicle or the like.

Comment by psxchelly

WARNING: Do not die using cannon at 64.54. You will need to run from Valgarde *all the way* back to cannons. Why did I die? A roamer was hitting me from behind while I was shooting the guys on dragons. As soon as I jumped off the cannon to attack, the dragons target the player and each hit was for over 600hp x 5 dragons.

So if you start to get hit from behind, don't jump off cannon and try to finish quest.

I am very surprised that this was not thought out better in regards to cemeteries.

Comment by huib

Use your left mouse button. I tried to fire missiles using my right mouse button and it failed to do anything. Also as said before, disabling all your addons might be a good idea if you cant get it to work and aim for the (red) roof of the buildings.

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Comment by iRuinWebsites

centain players please understand you may need to open a gm ticket, on certain serves it is broke, i play on a pvp and pve, the pve was broken. so understand there may be an issue.

Comment by Beejay

If you are grouped with someone that is also on this quest, you will get full experience from killing the Dragon Riders. With rested xp and the +10% exp shoulders, I was getting over 1700 experience per kill and I was able to kill at least 20 of them per minute. You can easily grind over a million xp per hour this way.

Comment by hamtylerhogg

8+1+1+1=11 :)Me smartness

Comment by binarydrone

For me, I have to say that I found this quest to be profoundly annoying and had to dump it. I was able to "mount" either gun but at no point could I see anything to actually target. Just a lot of empty sky. A perfect example of all that is annoying about this game. My suggestion: Don't even bother.

Comment by Psilocybian

I can verify that there is an addon(s) that do not allow the player to fire the harpoons. I didn't go through and individually disable each addon to test which one was causing this, but I tried countless times to fire the harpoon exactly as instructed but no matter what, the harpoon simply would not fire.

After about five minutes of trying everything else, I logged out and disabled every addon. I logged back in and whadduya know - Working as intended.

Comment by Venomousvoice

kinda nice if you want to want some quick XP per kill. get direct hits on all 3... kill waves of Defenders... repeat. /shrug. you know. if you like the sort of thing =)

Comment by Psilocybian

Wowhead is not a place for false information, Venomousvoice. Perhaps Thottbot is where you want to be?

Comment by farout59

this quest is bad for people with a low view distance in their video setting as when i was trying to do this quest i could not see off the side and only knowing that after looking at the rest of the comments

so thanks to Ideonl33t for the links to the pictures

Comment by blinketyblink

for some reason i cant shoot at the buildings can any1 help?

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Comment by tigersref

I just tried today.. I did all that was said to do... disabled my addons and set video distance to high. I climb into the unit, point towards one of the roofs and set target (action 1) and fire (action 2). When i fire, i get a message "Target must be in front of you" and the harpoon does not fire.

I know that I am setting the green AoE target thingy over the correct part of the roof.

I don't know what else to do.

Comment by BuddyPharaoh

The harpoon has the longest range I've seen on... anything. With terrain distance turned all the way up, I was able to launch harpoons as far as Skorn.

It will pull aggro, too. I hit a Vrykul behind me, and it came... oddly, before it reached me, something popped me high in the air, over the building beside me, and on the other side; needless to say, I died from the fall.

Edit: Oh, I see. There's a time limit on how long you can control the harpoon, and I passed it...

Comment by maccoul

*chuckle* if you plan on doing this quest, or the series, make sure the weather's good. There was a fog down below and I could only target the largest house and just barely at that.

Edit: okay, 3 weeks later I find out you can adjust the weather controls under the video settings. Unfortunely all my settings were on low anyway because of a not so fast computer. I actually had to turn all my video settings up first and then I left the weather down. I turned them all the way up first but even a small increase made a big enough difference. Wow, what you don't realize you're missing! (must... start... saving...for... upgrade)

Comment by krisco5387

If there are any UI Addon bugs, I didn't have them. Here are my add-ons:

The only noteable "bug" is that QH doesn't show where to fire the harpoons at, instead all the icons are cluttered by the harpoon guns you gotta fire FROM!

If you use any of those add-ons, then it's not an add-on problem, you're just not aiming right ;)

Aim at the roofs, with the center dot of the AoE circle on the peaks, and you should get a hit everytime. Once you do, the dragon riders will spawn directly in front of you (Or maybe they fly from the distance, I couldn't tell being I had draw distance down still). One-shot-kills using action #2 in the harpoon gun, and one-shot-kills on the buildings using action #1.

Took me forever to figure out what was going on with this quest, though. I started firing at the village the harpoon guns were stationed on, then I read the Quest Log a little closer and couldn't find the buildings to destroy...till I turned up my damn draw distance and took a glance across the river/lake. (/facepalm)

Good luck! Sure some of ya got as confused as me :)

Relheok - Kargath - Bad Company

Comment by elitjocke

anstrom thanks :D

Comment by SamiLefey93

>.> i can't see them ?

Comment by EyeRogue

Just wanted to confirm that my add-ons prevented me from finishing the quest on 6/24/2009. I run a standard set of Curse add-ons, and Wowecon. With my add-ons on I could not destroy the Longhouse, although all the other buildings registered. I'm very thankful for the postings here, turning off my add-ons would not have occured to me otherwise.

Comment by raebirth

This harpoon gun is powerful! It seems to have the same ranged targeting mechanics as eagle eye or far sight. If you can mouse over terrain or a building, you can fire it, no matter the distance. Fun to bomb the Horde towns off to the far southeast, though I have no idea if it would actually hurt anyone.

Comment by ville20

I hate this quest..... There seems to always be fog which makes it impossible to SEE the Storage Facility! Errrrrrrr!

Edit: Ok, so I followed the advice from someone who previously posted and upped all of my video settings and lowered the weather settings completely. It made a HUGE difference.... I need a new computer.... /sigh

Comment by Doring

Ok, I can confirm that it absolutly does not like ICE Hud. In addition, you have to double click the target to launch the harpoon for destroying the buildings. The elevation setting doesn't seem to effect thigns other than perhaps how long it takes the harpoon to hit. Big deal.

Comment by magic8900

Weird thing happened today when i was doing this quest, I destroyed the longhouse building, and then my guy suddenly got popped high into the air... with no parachute, and I died brutally on impact with the grass, just short of the water. I have no idea why I got evacuated from the turret, but the result wasn't pretty.

Comment by reurra

I nabandoned this quest. I have no addons and I got the error message. No matter what I did, I could not get it to work. Oh well.

Comment by Naickita

For those who have to play this game on low graphics; You need to improve the View Distance, or else you might not be able to see the houses.

Comment by eliotrules1

ive hit the dockhouse and the storage place and killed all the flying guards but i cant find the longhouse

Comment by mrwyzzerd

I absolutely hate this quest. I've tried it several times with UI addons turned on and off. I've logged and quit and logged again and still no results. Please drop some helpful tips for those of you who may have had the same problem.

== Oh, dear. I feel like an idiot. For those of you who may have had problems with this quest, when you get ready to fire the harpoon shoot at the roofs across the lake. I know, I fail.

Comment by Elomir

I hope this comment helps. Do not fire at the houses that are close to you. Turn your gun around and aim at the tiny houses that are way way across the river from you. They are way out in the distance and aim for the roofs. Don't ask how many times I tried this quest by firing at the wrong buildings.

Comment by eutopia

Something very important.The harpoon has a timer, which shows up on your buffs.If the timer is out and you are still on the harpoon, it will eject you into the sky and you will fall to the cliff, gurantee a death unless you have some sort of slow fall thing and you react quickly.Dismount before the timer expires if you have not completed it yet, then mount it again.

Comment by bigsyd

Okay, I get on the Harpoon gun, but it is so foggy you can not see the buildings.Any idea how to solve this problem? Syd

Comment by wadark

This quest took me a minute. Its tricky and finicky.

I wasn't able to get it with the right harpoon.

Simply put: Use the left turret gun.Shoot the left house - aim for the window.Shoot the middle house - aim for the window here too.Shoot the left house - aim for the lower red roof.

Comment by DominousDawn

Double "left" click on target (1 for buildings, 2 for dragon mounted defenders), wait takes time to fire. Too fast and it looks like the gun fires, but it just drops.

Comment by lomek

Confirmed. Once disabling my addons, this worked. I aimed at the roof, and nothing happened. Once I disabled my addons, it worked. Nice and easy. Thanks :)

Comment by lividia

Even after reading all the other comments I needed help to fire the gun to destroy the buildings, so here's a different way of explaining it:

-left click on the #1 icon-mouse cursor turns into a blue hand-as you move the mouse, a green targetting circle appears-place centre of green targetting circle on peak of building roof-double left click with mouse (keeping targetting circle on building)-fiery harpoon soars through the air and hits the house, setting it on fire!

To kill the mounted riders, simple target as usual and click on button 2.

It's fun! :)

Comment by Anatt

Make sure you aim high on to the buildings. Don't fiddle around with what looks like a good aim to you...just aim high at the roofs and you'll get it. :)

Comment by cantankerous

The quest seems to be bugged today (patch 4.0.1). For each of the 3 harpoon targets, Dragonflayer Defenders appear. However, they vanish much too quickly to shoot enough of them down. It seems like as soon as I kill one, the whole group vanishes. After all 3 targets have been hit by harpoon, there is no way to get more Defenders to appear. After abandoning quest and trying again, was still not able to kill more than 3 or 4 Defenders total.

Comment by Assouekotto

Tried this quest today still bugged.

Comment by LordSpike

Tried this quest today, kinda works. After you kill all the Defenders or they vanish, shoot a house below again with "1" and more Defenders will be alerted and come to you. At least this is how I did this quest.

Comment by hfmccrar

You have to aim a little over the top on the far side of the buildings to destroy them. Obtain a harpoon gun at Nifflevar at 64,52

Comment by snuzzle

This quest appears to be working perfectly as of today (Jan 10 2011). I just aimed anywhere on the buildings and hit each one my first try, and the Defenders gave me ample time to hit them.

I'm using several addons (Tuk UI, Lunar Sphere, Altoholic, etc) and it worked flawlessly with all of them. Seems to be 100% fixed.

Comment by IBHarleyman

I just tried this quest but it was too foggy to see Wyrmskull Village from Nifflevar.

Comment by Shashos

Feb 4, 2011, this quest seems to be bugged out.

Tried both harpoons, but each time, no Dragonflayer fliers ever spawn in, and you get "Target Must Be in Front of You" when using the powers. It doesn't matter where the harpoon is aimed, it never fires.

This is on a mage. Tried again after dismissing my pet since having a pet out is known to mess up some quests like this. Still no luck.

Comment by tdsplace18

ok I have read everything and maybe Im just dumb but I dont see HOW to get into the guns. I have flown and walked around them multiple times and can not figure out how lol. please help

Comment by Debrashavi

Poorly designed quest. Three years later and it still is bugged. I have disabled my UI mods and abandoned and retaken the quest. The Dragonflayer Defenders do not give credit and the Harpoon Control Mechanism does not work. Am not in a raid group as the GM suggested. Will ticket again.

Comment by BlazinMonkey

This isn't a working quest. Did the addon disable thing... etc... I can fire the gun at the buildings and nothing happens. No NPC's spawn or try to attack. (4.0.6a)

Comment by felsof

at first I could not see anything but when i changed the graphic quallity from low to fair i could see it

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Comment by KharmahofExodar

"ok I have read everything and maybe Im just dumb but I dont see HOW to get into the guns. I have flown and walked around them multiple times and can not figure out how lol. please help"

Well I am sure by now you have finished but this happened to me tonight. Maybe I am slow.. maybe it's the effect of my lack of sleep but so no one else gets frustrated like I did I'll just give people a heads up.For about 5 mins I was figuring out why I couldn't get into these guns. I was at the wrong side! lol. Don't bother using the ones that the red NPC's are at. You want to go ACROSS from then and fly up a little. You'll see the harpoons we can get into.

As soon as you are in first house, target the window, second target the window, third target the roof.

Comment by FuryWar

I found and ued the Harpoon cannon at 64.52.

Comment by mirfield

Can be a little buggy so when you try to hit the windows/roof and no dragon riders spawn/you get no explosion report try exiting the harpoon and then use it again.I did this and four riders were suddenly in front of me, giving me easy targets! I then targeted the windows of the two (left hand and middle) small "houses", getting another four dragons to attack me before hitting the lower roof of the right hand building (this may be the one where you did the spirit walk eavesdrop quest if you are alliance?)

Comment by wizzbang

Tried this quest at night and could'nt see the roofs across the bay at Nifflvar. I was running on the lowest setting for my video card to help my framerate.

Fix:I hit the game menu on WoW tool bar then options, under graphics clicked fair then apply.

Then i could see the red roof across the bay. Hit all three roofs in the Wyrmskull Village with harp then the defenders get called. They come to you, use your #2 button on the harpoon gun to take them out. Achievement Done.

Help this helps.Cheers,

Comment by adrienne50

Thanks for the comments about the roof and windows.

Mine bugged when I tried to hit the dragonriders. My solution? Kill one at time normally.

If you exit the harpoon before they arrive, only the one that you attack return fire. The rest will despawn. Sometimes you have to wait until the last moment to them despawning until one gets close enough. All you have to do is get some quick damage on it, and it will stick around.

A funny side effect of trying to see if they'd all follow if I ran away (after doing the bugged harpoon hit on the them)... a priest's shield spell (71 disc) evidently is strong enough to hold off all the dragon hits, as well as attacks from the mobs you pass in the long house. I was spamming renew as I ran because I was in trouble - woe to you if you take the hillside path to the other longhouse - all dragons will follow. Next time I discovered, only one of the dragons will follow you if you run directly into the long house next to you. If you can survive long enough to get up the stairs, it's a fairer fight. If you don't hit the dragon again and run out the other side onto the grass, he will eventually despawn and you'll be left with a mob or two to down.

It was fun to try to figure out how to outsmart the bug and exciting to play with such aggressive dragons, but this quest would have been seriously tedious if I wasn't such a nerd.

Comment by darkocean

Actually the harpoon is at 64.8.52 to be exact. with out the 8 I was flying around Utargde Keep right side by the water fall.

Comment by Zangdaarr

Adds on do no longer interfere with this quest, but you have to be really precise

Comment by NemesisNyx

Add-ons do not glitch this quest now (I had A LOT of add-ons active during this). You have to place the bulls-eye directly on the red roofs and then fire. I went from right to left and had 4 defenders attack me the first time, then 3 the second time, then 4 the last time.

Comment by Burntoastftw

For those that seem to be having problems with this quest,

First you have to use the harpoon in Nifflevar; not the one's in Wyrmskull Village.

To activate the harpoon, simply click on the Harpoon Control Mechanism (all ready provided to you).

Aim at the buildings in Wyrmskull, kill the Dragonflayer Defenders, complete quest.

Comment by janan2

Ok this is what I did. Found harpoon at 64,52. There is another one at 64,54. Click on the icon next to your quest to get on the harpoon. Aim at the red roofs of the buildings across the river. The longhouse is the biggest on the right and the other smaller ones to the left of it. Click on 1, put your cursor over the roof you want to aim at, see the green and click your mouse button. The harpoon will fly and destroy the building. After each building about 3 flyers will come after you. Click on a flyer and hit the 2 button. Do this for each flyer. It is a one hit kill. SO DON'T DO ALL BUILDINGS AT ONCE or you will have all flyers attacking you at once. Note: if you are getting close to low health in between sets, click the red arrows to get off the harpoon. Heal your self and get back on. Same goes for if you are running out of time. Hope this helps.

Comment by SeldomNever

I kept getting the 'Target needs to be in front of you' message when I tried to harpoon the defenders. Died a few times before realising that you HAVE TO TARGET THE DEFENDERS BEFORE YOU CAN SHOOT THEM. SO, click on the defender before using the fiery lance ability.

Comment by Stizelswik

Must be a bug or something now... I have no addons active; NONE of the harpoon guns are clickable for me. I stand at the gun, click on the mechanism and it says "Out of range". I step back a bit and see the icon but it's gray. when i try to get closer it disappears and says "out of range" ANY help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Comment by PhoenixRizing

I thought it was still bugged but, it's not, just very sensitive. You can use either gun 64,52 or 64,54. Click on the gun then click on the symbol by the quest and it will put you on the gun. Shoot each building on the shore on the other side of the water. Make sure you put the green marker on the roof, if you have the green marker anywhere but on the red roof part, it won't work. Shoot one building then, wait about 30 seconds for the defenders to show up in front of you. You have to click on them individually then, click 2, otherwise it will say the target must be in front of you. Should be all you need to get it done. :) Good Luck!

Comment by Kahtek

For anyone else confused because they're making the same mistake I did: If you're trying to click on a harpoon gun lever and getting the error message "Requires Icehammer's Harpoon Controller" you're at the wrong harpoon gun.

Go down the platform to the right and you'll see another one on the next platform with green text "Vrykul Harpoon Gun" above it. (64,54). Stand near that and click the quest item in your bags.

The other gun with the lever is for the eventual harpoon surfing quest you'll get later.

Comment by rayne267

i call BS! IM SITTING HERE ON THE HARPOON AND ITS FOGGY its not clear i dont see no other harpoon closerso i vote it down, the pictures dont look nothing like what im looking at this is in 2013

Comment by Vetlurr

Hello. I've been trying to fix this quest for some time now, but I just can't seem to figure it out. The problem is that I'm not able to mount the harpoons. I just get the message "out of range". I've disabled all addons und stuff. Am I just doing the quest wrong?

Comment by Darneas

Just finished this by going to 64,54. I got on the harpoon and targeted the roofs of the 3 buildings next to the water. Well, when the attackers came after me I couldn't attack them with the harpoon like it said. I was a shadow priest level 69 so I got off and attacked them with my spells. I had to light the buildings up a few times since when I killed one the rest disappeared, but, I was able to finish the quest that way. Hope it helps you all out!

Comment by Anok8

You need to hit EXACTLY the roof of the houses.

Comment by eddotheshrew

I just completed this quest. Aim for the roofs, after hitting the roofs then riders will appear in front of you. #1 is to hit roofs, #2 to hit birds....no need to turn off addons or adjust graphics. Have fun!

Comment by Takata

Yes, I was using the wrong Harpoon Gun, there are two of them, one is with the Large harpoon lever which is the one your not suppose to use, it is the one to the right of it, its simply called a Vrykul Harpoon gun. You just stand near it and click on your Harpoon control Mechanism. And the quest isn't bugged, you just have to aim your "green marker" at the correct spot on top of the buildings that you have to destroy. The moment you hit one the alarms will sound and the Vrykul will come and attack you. You can attack the incoming Vrykul only when they stop in front of you and start attacking you, you can hit them with the second button. My only complaint with the quest is that they should highlight the buildings that you need to attack when you hold the marker over them. But anyways, the quest is completable. Oh and the other gun with the lever is for the next quest when you go "harpoon surfing."

Comment by Snailgirlemily

This quest has a small bug. Your view distance cannot be set to low (at least in some cases) If you find yourself unable to aim at the buildings. Try setting your view distance to good.